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Ray Shero was fired as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday, three days after the team made a shocking second-round exit from the National Hockey League playoffs. The Penguins were ousted by the New York Rangers, who rallied from a 3…

Damian Lillard scored 25 points as the Portland Trail Blazers stayed alive in the NBA playoffs with a 103-92 victory over San Antonio. LaMarcus Aldridge on Monday added 19 points for the Trail Blazers, whose victory in game four of the Western Conference…

Russian star Evgeni Malkin scored a hat trick to power the Pittsburgh Penguins over Columbus 4-3 and into the second round of the National Hockey League playoffs. Malkin broke out of a scoring slump with his first goals of the playoffs, helping stake…

Canada’s only team in the National Hockey League playoffs, the Montreal Canadiens, became the first team to reach the second round, thanks to a first-round sweep of Tampa Bay. No club from Canada has won the Stanley Cup since Montreal in 1993 and the…

Kevin Durant’s dunk with 16.5 seconds to play lifted Oklahoma City to a 112-111 victory over Detroit on the final night of the NBA regular season. With the victory, the Thunder secured the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Durant drove…